[bookshare-discuss] Re: scanners
- From: Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:49:28 -0500
Rosa, that's wonderful. It is quite possible that the Lexmark 1100 is a
diamond in the rough. The simple truth is that the adaptive OCR community
does not know too much about Lexmark scanners and for the last couple of
years we have been gravitating over the mid-level EPSON scanners, which
seem to have become de-facto standards and leaders in reliability and
speed.
But it would be truly good if the friendly folks at Kurzweil and OpenBook
development at Freedom Scientific could test your 1100 and publish some
data on the reliability/desirability of the device.
Guido
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Lisa Hall
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Hi everyone,
When I bought my Lexmark 1100 scanner/printer/copier, I paid $99.00 and I
believed it came with a rebait.
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:30 PM
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Sandy, you may also want to consider a refurbished EPSON 2400 available
directly from EPSON for only $99. This is a very heavyduty scanner that
costed approx $250 when it was first introduced on the market. Here is
the URL:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=31061924
Refurb units are also available on current models:
3170 for $159 instead of $199.
1670 for $79 instead of $99.
Guido
Guido D. Corona
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Hi Sandy,
I use Openbook 7 with a new scanner from Lexmark 1100 series. When I
bought
the scanner, I wasn't sure if it would work with Open Book. After
installing the scanner, I had to tell Open Book that I was using the
original driver that came with the scanner. To my surprise it worked. I
haven't had any problem with it. I don't know if Kurzweil 1000 would work
with that scanner. I looked on the Kurzweil site and did not see my model
number list.
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From: "Sandra E. Smith" <sandy.knits@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:30 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] scanners
I thought perhaps some of you veteran scanners could advise me here. I
have a computer I bought a few months ago with Windows XP; I am running
Window-Eyes and Open Book, the latest version, whatever that is. The old
scanner I have is just not working. I want to buy a new scanner. Is
there
one any of you would recommend? Is there such a thing as a scanner that
also is a printer? This may opening up a can of worms here, but I am
wondering if any of you have recently used scanning programs other than
Open
Book and what your experience has been. I am, to say the least, not
pleased with Freedom Scientifics' tech support, and would like to get away
from that company. If you would prefer to write to me privately about
this,
please do so at
sandy.knits@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sandy
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